Trump Calls Vance the ‘Fraud Czar.’ Here’s What We Know About the Role

Vice President J.D. Vance delivers remarks before swearing in Colin McDonald to be the assistant Attorney General for fraud enforcement at the Department of Justice in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2026. —Anna Moneymaker—Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said on Friday that Vice President J.D. Vance “is now in charge of ‘FRAUD’ in the United States” and will be referred to as the country’s “fraud czar.”In his Truth Social post, Trump claimed that fraud “is massive and pervasive” in the U.S. and said of Vance that “the job he will be doing, in conjunction with many great people within the Trump Administration, will be a major factor in how great the future of our Country will be.”“We will call him the ‘FRAUD CZAR,’” Trump continued, “and his focus will be ‘EVERYWHERE,’ but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others, have had a ‘free for all’ in the unprecedented theft of Taxpayer Money. The numbers are so large that, if successful, we would literally be able to balance our American Budget.” The President did not offer evidence for these assertions.The Vice President’s office referred TIME to an Executive Order Trump signed on March 16 to establish an anti-fraud task force to “coordinate and accelerate a comprehensive national strategy to stop fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs, including programs administered jointly with State, local,…

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